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From: ncohen@watson.ibm.com (Norman H. Cohen)
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Subject: Re: Easily-Read C++?
Date: 11 Oct 1994 18:02:30 GMT
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In article <37bnic$kj2@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
writes: 

|> One little addition on min and max, they are static attributes and so can
|> be used in static expressions. That's quite useful....

I agree.  I only wish there were a way--short of writing
Largest_Integer_Type'Pos(Largest_Integer_Type'Max(...,...))--to use 'Max
and 'Min in universal expressions.  In fact, even this doesn't work for
real numbers.

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Norman H. Cohen    ncohen@watson.ibm.com